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此书~①的主编、美籍学者安乐博现为澳门大学历史系教授,专研近代华南地区的海洋历史。《海盗及走私》一书收录了11篇论文。全书旨在探讨15世纪以来东亚沿海地区的海盗历史及其与私人海上武装和跨国贸易网络的关系,并从跨区域角度来比较各地不同海盗现象的差异和演变。书中的学者除了研究海盗现象的历史变化及其在各时代的特性之外,更分析了各地官方文献中相关的字词,进而摆脱了官方言论的桎梏,呈现出海盗与地方社会的多变关系。这本论文集的重要性体现在下列各方面:
This book ~ ① editor, American scholar Amoy Bo now Professor of History at the University of Macau, specializing in modern history of the South China Sea. The book Piracy and Smuggling included 11 papers. The purpose of the book is to explore the history of piracy in the coastal regions of East Asia and its relationship with private maritime armed and transnational trade networks since the 15th century and to compare the differences and evolvement of different piracy phenomena across regions from a cross-regional perspective. In addition to studying the historical changes in the phenomenon of pirates and their characteristics in various epochs, the scholars in the book have also analyzed the relevant wordings in the official documents of different places, and then got rid of the shackles of official remarks and showed the change in piracy and local society relationship. The importance of this collection is reflected in the following aspects: